Meat tenderer



Feb. 1940. c. E. LUNDBLAD Z m m m w MEAT TENDERER Filed Ost. 5, 1938 2 Sheets-Sheet 2 A tiorneys Inventar -Patentecl Feb. 13, 1940 UNITE STATES PATENT OFFICE 1 MEAT TENDEBER cm E. Lundblad, sc. Paul, Minn. Application October 5, was, Serial N0. 233,511

' 1 Claim. (c1.'17-29) The present invention relates to meat tenderers a.nd has for its primary object to provide a, device of this character involving a plurality of prongs extending radially from a shaft and suita.bly mounted on a handle for rolling the same over tough steak for the purpose of making indentations in the meat in order that the heat and the frying medium may enter the meat 170 facilitate the cooking of the interior thereof without the application of an excessive amount of heat.

Oneof the important objects of the present inVention is to provide a novel support for the rotatably mounted prongs and 110 which supprt the handle is-attached.

Another object is 170 provide a device of this character of simple and practical constrction,

which is eficienf: and reliable in performance relatively inexpensive to manufacture and otherw1'se well adapted for the purposes for which the Same is intended.

Other objects and clvantageS reside in the wherein like numerals refer to like parts through- Figure 3 is abransverse sectional vieW taken substantially on a, line 33 of Fig.l.

Figure 4 is a top plan view of the support for the prongs.

Figure 5 is an enlarged sectional view through the handle, taken substantially on aline 55 of Fig. 2, and

Figure 6 is a detail of the outet end 016 one of the shaft supporting arms.

Referring now to the dra.wings in detail wherein for the purpose of illustration I have diselosed a preferred embodiment of the invention, the numeral 5 designates a supporting yoke generally, said yoke being formed of a pair of duplicate members, each of said members including a segment of a longitudihally split threaded stem, the segments being p'ositioned' with flat surfaces in aLbutting relation and secured to ea(:h other adjacent 0ne end. by a lo0se-fitting rivet or the like 1 120 connectthe segments o f the stem for threading into a, handle 9, the rivet having the necessary freedom to enable the openirig and closing movement of the unter ends of the yokei for the purpose hereinafter explained. The flattened surfaces cf the segments at their endsoutwardly from the rivet diverge, as a1: 8, to

-facilitate spreading apart of the ends of the yoke. 5 Both of the members 5 at the free end of the segment&6 are ben1: substantially a1: right -angles in opposite directions as shown at ICI, for positioning crossWise of th adjacent end cf the handle and the extremities of each of the mm 10 bers are bent at right angles in parallelism as shown ab H and provided in their opposed faces,

adjacent their free ends, with podkets or r cesses I2 Ior rotatably receiving the ends cf a shaft I 3, the shaft being he1d in engaged position in the recesses by reason of the contration of the end pbrtions II when the stem is inserted in the handle in a manner as will be apparent. Freely mounted on the shaft I3 is a plurality 01 tendering elements des ignated generally ab I4,

each of Which includes a hub portion 155- anda I lura.lity of radially extending prongs I 6. Thf-2 prongs are maintained in spaced relatioh by m-atnsof spacing discs H mounted 011 the shaft and arte free to rocate independently of ea ch' other.

With the par ts secured in position as shown in Figs. 1 2, and 3 the movement cf the prongs along the surface of the meat will cause the rotation of theprongs upon the shaft whereby-3U to cause the entire surfz'we of themeat tobe perforated.

It is believed the details of construction and rrianner of use of the device will be readilytinder' stood from the foregoing without further detailed explanation.

What is claimed is:

A meat tenderer comprising ashaft; suppo-rt formed of a pair of duplicate members, eac :h member including the segment cf a longitudinally u sp1it stem, a rivet loosely securing one end of each of the segments fiatwise 110 ehe corresponding end. of the other, a handle threadedly receiving the segm-ents, the free ends of the segments a1: their abutting surfaces diverging', spaced parallel extensions on the members having shaft- CARL E. LUNDBLAD. 

